User talk:Shyamal/archive30

Page move request 23
Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of Romalea microptera to its monotypic genus page. The genus page is currently a redirect with some page history as a redirect. Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 02:25, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * done Shyamal (talk) 02:31, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, 03:12, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Ali Wallace (naturalist)
I just did some copy editing at Ali Wallace (naturalist) and wanted to thank you for the article. It's so fascinating to think of all the people who were critical to Alfred Russel Wallace who don't make it to the history books. I'm glad that Ali has made it to the pages of Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨  20:15, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the edits. Glad you found it interesting. Shyamal (talk) 03:10, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Page move request 24
Hello Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic class Nuda to its family page Beroidae, as the order Beroida is also monotypic. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks again, Loopy30 (talk) 22:59, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Shyamal (talk) 02:58, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

K. Kunhikannan
Hi Shyamlal one person is there who knows something more about Mr. K. Kunhikannan, but he is not in Wikipedia, can you contact him through mail, may get more source for the article. Rajesh K Odayanchal (talk) 10:21, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * - Thanks for the info. Please put me in touch with your contact. I am easily locatable on Facebook, email, blog or via Wikipedia. Shyamal (talk) 13:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I will share you the details about the person who is helpful to update the content. He doesn't know anything about the wiki style of writing, you can collect them and manage it with proper references. it is not possible to link my facebook profile page over here, my fb id is also the same as wiki id. I think you can find out easily with the id or send my a mail with the same id at gmail.com.-Rajesh K Odayanchal (talk) 02:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Page move request 25
Hello again Shyamal, I would like to request a move of the monotypic order Lithonida to its family page Minchinellidae. The family page is currently a redirect without any significant page history. Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 22:41, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Shyamal (talk) 01:15, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Friedrich Bodenheimer and Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer
Friedrich Bodenheimer appears to be the same person as Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Friedrich Simon is the German name, Fritz Shimon the Hebrew name), and thus the two need merging (see also Wikidata, and WorldCat. Other variants of his name include Frederick (translating from German and Hebrew to ENglish is never flawless): we should probably use the most commonly used spelling in English sources. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 02:36, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I noticed. I am in the merge process. Shyamal (talk) 02:37, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Good, good. Looks like there are abundant sources in a multitude of languages, e.g., , . --Animalparty! (talk) 02:54, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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FYI
I created a little stub that may be of interest to you: Harriet C. Tytler.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:09, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Nice. I will try and add to it. This book might be of interest, although I have never quite managed to locate a copy to read. Shyamal (talk) 02:34, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * WOW. I asked the right person! Thank you, you're fabulous. I would never have known how to find such excellent and relevant detail. One thing I could not find a source for was the naming of Mount Harriet National Park after her. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:55, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of their kin apparently went to Vancouver! Stanley Delhi-Force Tytler might need an entry too - http://www.british-columbia-artists.ca/tytler.pdf https://www.myheritage.com/family-15_15001253_30451381_30451381/tytler-stanley-delhi-force-tytler-hester-ellen-meluish- Shyamal (talk) 02:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Editor of the Week
User:Adityavagarwal submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am very, very pleased to nominate Shyamal to be the Editor of the Week. Shyamal is an extraordinary contributor to Wikipedia, who contributes to articles more related to the Animal Kingdom. He has immensely improved numerous animal-related articles through his overwhelming 63,100 edits among which a noteworthy 77% or 44,700 edits are in the mainspace of Wikipedia. Besides being one of the oldest contributors to Wikipedia, Shyamal has profoundly improved innumerable articles relating WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and WikiProject Tree of Life. He has created an astonishing number of 5400 pages on Wikipedia among which 1600 are articles. Furthermore, Shyamal has also uploaded an astronomical number of 16,000 images. Also, he has created a Did you know (Formiscurra) for the main page and a colossal number of 55 other templates. His contributions to Wikipedia are just too many those make him an utterly prolific contributor to Wikipedia. What's more, his fully amiable and cordial disposition to old and new editors alike complements the numerous accomplishments he has achieved on Wikipedia. For more reasons than the aforementioned, I strongly advocate that Shyamal be honored with the Editor of the Week award. You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

Thanks again for your efforts! &#8213; Buster7  &#9742;   15:10, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, regards. --Titodutta (talk) 19:17, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Heh, thanks! Shyamal (talk) 01:05, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Golden-breasted Fulvetta
If you're bored (ha ha) and looking for something to do, feel free to jump in on Golden-breasted Fulvetta. I've decided it's time to tackle some Bhutanese birds!! :D MeegsC (talk) 18:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you know if there's a way to archive PDFs that are currently available on the web? Right now, many of the articles we're using for references are available—but I find universities often take PDFs down once professors move on. Would be nice to have them available somewhere! MeegsC (talk) 16:38, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * If the website allows archival (that is they do not use robots.txt to exclude/block archival) I believe the best way is to enter the URL into the wayback machine on www.archive.org - if it does not have a backup, you can force it to archive it. This link is helpful - https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see-something-save-something/ Shyamal (talk) 16:44, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Gharial
Hi Shyamal and congratulations for the Editor of the Week nomination! I just noticed that you are part of the WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. Would you have time and be interested to review the Gharial page? In the past years, I having been working on it off and on, more focused in autumn 2018, and then last weekend with focus on the taxonomy section. At present, the page is rated B-class, but I think it's a really looong time ago that it has been assessed. Maybe, it can even be raised to higher than A- class now? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 21:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * - sure, give me some time. I suppose I can add comments to the article discussion page. Have you seen this? Shyamal (talk) 05:15, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your fast reply and the link to the Envis Bulletin! I didn't know this one, but think that most, if not all of the authors and areas are referenced, though with other publications. I'll check. Yes, sure : lets discuss content on the article's talk page. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 06:37, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter

 * April 2019&mdash;Issue 001


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Tree of Life newsletter!

Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016,, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs. A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
 * WikiCup heating up
 * Wikipedia page views track animal migrations, flowers blooming
 * Did you know ... that Tree of Life editors bring content to the front page nearly every day?

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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DYK nomination of Carl H. Lindroth
Hello! Your submission of Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! RRD (talk) 04:30, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

May 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * May 2019&mdash;Issue 002


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

On 23 May, user created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
 * Fundamental changes being discussed at WikiProject Biology

Editors and  had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
 * Editor Spotlight: These editors want you to write about dinosaurs

1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles? 2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs? 3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
 * Jens Lallensack: I started in the German Wikipedia in 2005 but switched to the English Wikipedia because of its very active dinosaur project. My first major collaboration with FunkMonk was on Heterodontosaurus in 2015.
 * FunkMonk: Yeah, we had interacted already on talk pages and through reviewing each other's articles, and at some point I was thinking of expanding Heterodontosaurus, and realised Jens had already written the German Wikipedia version, so it seemed natural to work together on the English one. Our latest collaboration was Spinophorosaurus, where by another coincidence, I had wanted to work on that article for the WP:Four Award, and it turned out that Jens had a German book about the expedition that found the dinosaur, which I wouldn't have been able to utilise with my meagre German skills. Between those, we also worked on Brachiosaurus, a wider Dinosaur Project collaboration between several editors.
 * JL: Because of the huge public interest in them. But dinosaurs are also highly interesting from a scientific point of view: key evolutionary innovations emerged within this group, such as warm-bloodedness, gigantism, and flight. Dinosaur research is, together with the study of fossil human remains, the most active field in paleontology. New scientific techniques and approaches tend to get developed within this field. Dinosaur research became increasingly interdisciplinary, and now does not only rely on various fields of biology and geology, but also on chemistry and physics, among others. Dinosaurs are therefore ideal to convey scientific methodology to the general public.
 * FM: As outlined above, dinosaurs have been described as a "gateway to science"; if you learn about dinosaurs, you will most likely also learn about a lot of scientific fields you would not necessarily be exposed to otherwise. On a more personal level, having grown up with and being influenced by various dinosaur media, it feels pretty cool to help spread knowledge about these animals, closest we can get to keeping them alive.
 * JL: Because we are a small but active and helpful community. Our Dinosaur collaboration, one of the very few active open collaborations in Wikipedia, makes high-level writing on important articles easier and more fun. Our collaboration is especially open to editors without prior experience in high-level writing. But we do not only write articles: several WikiProject Dinosaur participants are artists who do a great job illustrating the articles, and maintain an extensive and very active image review system. In fact, a number of later authors started with contributing images.
 * FM: Anyone who is interested in palaeontology is welcome to try writing articles, and we would be more than willing to help. I find that the more people that work on articles simultaneously with me, the more motivation I get to write myself. I am also one of those editors who started out contributing dinosaur illustrations and making minor edits, and only began writing after some years. But when I got to it, it wasn't as intimidating as I had feared, and I've learned a lot in the process. For example anatomy; if you know dinosaur anatomy, you have a very good framework for understanding the anatomy of other tetrapod animals, including humans.

4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
 * FM: One of the main reasons I review GANs is to learn more about subjects that seem interesting (or which I would perhaps not come across otherwise). There are of course also more practical reasons, such as helping an article on its way towards FAC, to reduce the GAN backlog, and to "pay back" when I have a nomination up myself. It feels like a win-win situation where I can be entertained by interesting info, while also helping other editors get their nominations in shape, and we'll end up with an article that hopefully serves to educate a lot of people (the greater good).
 * JL: Because I enjoy reading Wikipedia articles and like to learn new things. In addition, reviews give me the opportunity to have direct contact with the authors, and help them to make their articles even better. This is quite rewarding for me personally. But I also review because I consider our GA and FA system to be of fundamental importance for Wikipedia. When I started editing Wikipedia (the German version), the article promotion reviews motivated me and improved my writing skills a lot. Submitting an article for review requires one to get serious and take additional steps to bring the article to the best quality possible. GAs and FAs are also a good starting point for readers, and may motivate them to become authors themselves.

5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable? 6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
 * FM: One script that everyone should know about is the duplink highlight tool. It will show duplinks within the intro and body of a given article separately, and it seems a lot of people still don't know about it, though they are happy when introduced to it. I really liked the citationbot too (since citation consistency is a boring chore to me), but it seems to be blocked at the moment due to some technical issues.
 * JL: I often review using the Wikipedia Beta app on my smartphone, as it allows me to read without needing to sit in front of the PC. For writing, I find the reference management software Zotero invaluable, as it generates citation templates automatically, saving a lot of time.
 * Editor's note: I downloaded Zotero and tried it for the first time and think it is a very useful tool. More here.
 * FM: Perhaps that I have no background in natural history/science, but work with animation and games. But fascination with and knowledge of nature and animals is actually very helpful when designing and animating characters and creatures, so it isn't that far off, and I can actually use some of the things I learn while writing here for my work (when I wrote the Dromaeosauroides article, it was partially to learn more about the animal for a design-school project).
 * JL: That I am actually doing research on dinosaurs. Though I avoid writing about topics I publish research on, my Wikipedia work helps me to keep a good general overview over the field, and quite regularly I can use what I learned while writing for Wikipedia for my research.

Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
 * Marine life continues to dominate ToL DYKs

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Ryukyu spammer
Hi Shyamal, might I suggest a block for both User:178.148.207.231 and User:87.116.175.84? These are clearly the same guy as User:178.148.221.245, who is already blocked for the same thing - adding unsourced distribution claims about the Ryukyu Islands to large numbers of species articles. Less direct attempts to dissuade them have proven somewhat useless. (I like that this time round, they added "citation needed" to each of their entries themselves... well done...) -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I am for the block but that is a dynamic IP and range blocks are something I normally stay out of. Shyamal (talk) 17:15, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, both of them have been used repeatedly by the user (and only them), so maybe blocks of these two specifically rather than a range will already do some good. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:20, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll keep an eye. Shyamal (talk) 14:23, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

My User Page
Articles for deletion/Freelandia (2nd nomination) isn't going someones way. User:Tyw7 transcluded my user page against my will! I want WP:PROTECTive autoimmunity!! And they deserve the death penalty for WP:LF racism!!! This is what I want protectively deleted: User:Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated This is what I want to keep: User:Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated/UP -- Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated (talk) 11:37, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * As far as I can see User:Tyw7 is trying to help you with your user page. You can always undo any edits if you do not like it. If there is a specific admin action needed you ought to take it to the appropriate pages (Requests_for_administrator_attention) and not ask a specific user unless there is a good reason for that. We most certainly do not favour anyone with a similar-looking user name. Shyamal (talk) 12:30, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * My talk page makes it abundantly clear that I did not want help with my user page; I've learned the necessary process, and have taken the required steps. Thanks for the requests link; I didn't know about that. I'm not looking for favouritism; I just saw a List of administrators/Active, and looked for something familiar. -- Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated (talk) 12:42, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Check over Work Request
Good day Shyamal. I’m looking for an active administrator, who has prior experience in Indian topics, so hopefully you, to check over all my edits on Wikipedia. I’m a new editor and want to make sure I’m following all the rules and my grammar, format, and etc. are correctly formulated. I would be greatly indebted if you could look over all the edits I have made thus far (from the time of this post), and make edits or corrections. I know that may be a bit of a time crunch, but as I am new to editing, I want to make sure my work has been up to Wiki-standards. You don’t have to check talk page edits on articles, but for the main articles, please do check. --Callofduty259 (talk) 15:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I very much doubt that I have "experience in Indian topics" but the best way for new editors is to just plod along and make sure to learn along the way by watching what others do. Shyamal (talk) 10:08, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the advice :) Callofduty259 (talk) 02:10, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

ANI discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 00:53, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Carl H. Lindroth
Hello! Your submission of Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 12:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Carl H. Lindroth at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with db-g7, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 03:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * - what does this mean? Shyamal (talk) 15:02, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It means that you forgot the last step in nominating your hook. After you fill out a nomination template, you have to manually add the template to the nominations page under the date the article was created (in this case, May 14). After the hook is approved, a bot moves it to the approved page, and from there a prep builder selects it for promotion to the queue. I have gone ahead and added the nomination template to the approved page, since I approved it. Best, Yoninah (talk) 17:30, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hold on. I see what happened. After I pulled it from prep, I failed to re-list it on the nominations page. Sorry about that. Yoninah (talk) 17:31, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Shyamal (talk) 03:52, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Carl H. Lindroth
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 28 June 2019 (UTC)